Insights into Plato's: "The Allegory of the Cave"

"The Allegory of the Cave" is rich and can be examined on a variety of levels. But the nugget that is most significant to our study on law and government is Plato's comment:

"The truth is that the state in which rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the state in which they are most eager, the worst."